It’s Monday, April 21st, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
New law criminalizes praying with someone about gender, sexuality identity
On April 4, the Australian state of New South Wales began enforcing a new law criminalizing anti-conversion therapy, which now includes praying with someone about their gender or sexual identity and even encouraging abstinence for homosexual Christians, reports International Christian Concern.
On the website “Anti-Discrimination New South Wales,” a government body that administers and investigates anti-discrimination, they note that “praying with or over a person with the intent to change or suppress their sexuality or gender identify is unlawful … even if that person has asked you to pray for them to be able to change or suppress their sexuality or gender identity.”
The law – known as the New South Wales’s Conversion Practices Ban Act 2024 — is part of a trend of laws that seek to outlaw so-called “conversion therapy,” the clinical practice of helping someone embrace their God-given sexuality and gender. What makes the law different is how broadly “conversion therapy” is defined beyond a traditional clinical setting.
In an interview with The Washington Stand, Arielle Del Turco, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Family Research Council, said, “This is a terrible new law in this Australian state, and they aren’t even trying to hide it. According to the state government’s own admission from their website, this law will prevent a pastor or any believer from praying with someone who is asking for prayer for freedom from gender identity issues.”
Genesis 1:27 says, “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
Italy’s top court scraps ‘mother’ and ‘father’ on ID cards
Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation has restored the use of “Parent 1” and “Parent 2” on Italian ID cards because it deemed that calling parents ‘father’ and ‘mother’ is discriminatory against homosexual couples, reports the European Conservative.
To her credit, conservative Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had announced the return of the terms “father” and “mother” on identity documents back in 2023.
Supreme Court blocks deportation of illegal Venezuelans
On Saturday, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting an unspecified number of illegal Venezuelan men, currently in immigration custody, who are alleged to be members of a criminal gang, reports The Epoch Times.
The order was issued after the American Civil Liberties Union filed an emergency request on behalf of its Venezuelan clients late on April 18 asking the Supreme Court to immediately block the Trump administration from deporting the clients.
On March 14th, President Donald Trump signed Proclamation 10903, in which he officially declared that Tren de Aragua, a designated foreign terrorist organization, “is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States.”
The president invoked the Alien Enemies Act to authorize the “immediate apprehension, detention, and removal” of members of the group who are Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older and who are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States.
Democrats want to visit El Salvador’s prison housing deported illegals
Democrats in both chambers of Congress are working to organize delegations to El Salvador to see the prison where President Trump is sending these violent illegal immigrants.
Initially, El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele built the prison in 2022 as part of a response to surging gang violence in El Salvador, according to National Public Radio.
Each cell can fit 65 to 70 prisoners, and the prison has a capacity of 40,000 inmates. Trump asked Bukele to build five identically-sized prisons to receive more violent illegal immigrants from America.
The deported Venezuelan illegals are living in the same conditions as convicted gangsters.
Democrat Representatives Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) and Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) as well as Democrat Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) are the politicians who want to fly to El Salvador. However, House Homeland Security Committee chair Mark Green, a Republican from Tennessee, said he wouldn’t grant their request, reports Axios.
CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings explained that this kind of move by the Democrats is why they only have a 21% approval rating by the American public.
JENNINGS: “First of all, I’m more than happy to hear the Congressman say they’re all going to El Salvador. I think for Republicans, this just confirms what we have believed about the Democratic Party and why it currently has a 21% approval rating in Congress.
“Look where the energy in the Democratic Party is. It’s around retrieving illegal aliens from El Salvador. It’s around fighting for these college campuses that have been rife with anti semitism. It’s around biological males who want to play in girls’ sports.
“This is why they are losing to Donald Trump every day, because the energy that Democrats feel comes on all these issues that are fundamentally not where the American people are.”
Rahm Emmanuel wants to run for President
In the world of politics, Democrat Rahm Emanuel has done a lot.
Not only did he serve as President Bill Clinton’s Senior Advisor for policy and strategy and as U.S. Congressman from Illinois for three terms, but Emmauel was President Barack Obama’s White House Chief of Staff, served as mayor of Chicago, and most recently was the United States ambassador to Japan.
Now, Rahm Emmanuel wants to be president.
In a recent speech, he said, “I am done with the discussion of locker rooms. I am done with the discussion of bathrooms. We better start having a conversation about the classroom,” drawing applause as he alluded to a new study showing more than two-thirds of eighth graders can’t read at grade level.
Texas House greenlights $210 million to support pregnant women
To hear it from abortion activists, pro-life Americans don’t care about women and children – especially after banning abortions. But in the state of Texas that notion is totally false, reports LifeNews.
On April 11th, Texas lawmakers gave preliminary approval to $210 million in support for pregnant moms.
Texas Right to Life explained, “The Texas House voted to fully fund life-saving nonprofits at $210 million in the Thriving Texas Families program. These providers help mothers choose Life by offering baby materials (like diapers and formula), counseling, and job skills training. This victory isn’t about dollars. It’s about the children and families rescued from abortion.”
Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.”
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